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Scape Goat

Posted by Kelley
on September 17, 2002

It was Yom Kippur, a jewish fesitval yesterday
and a jewish friend told me that the phrase 'scapegoat' comes from when ancient
jews used to have a goat in the temple on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, and
each individual would place their hands on goat, transfering their sins to it.
The community would then let the goat loose into the wildeness taking their sins
with it.